1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 101 
the plate, and the way in which the side-knobs are fixed to the 
brooeh. It should be observed in the first place that all the broo- 
ebes, figs. 116—119, have the side-knobs fixed upon the axis of 
the spring-coil, which is also the case with the contemporary broo- 
ehes of Denmark while corresponding: specimens from Norway and 
Sweden generally have the side-knobs cast in one piece with the 
brooeh. Regardinz the way in which the knobs are connected with 
the plate we find again the same variations which have been already 
noticed in the first part of this paper. In the specimen fig. 116 
the plate has lower edges, probably 
sharpened in order to be inserted into 
grooves in the bases of the side-knobs; 
in fig. 117 the plate is bent for the 
same purpose and consequently has the 
underside concave, å peculiarity also 
known in Denmark, but not in the 
Scandinavian Peninsula; in fig. 118 the 
bases of the knobs are provided with 
eylindrical projections which have been 
split so as to hold the edges of the 
plate; in fig. 119 the plate has a higher 
middle part of the same form as already 
seen in brooches from Sleswick-Holstein 
(Mzstorr: Alterthiimer fig. 593). But 
in one respect these Enelish brooches 
diverge from the Scandinavian forms: 
they have a larger plate than is ever 
seen in the corresponding stages of de- 
velopment in Scandinavia and thus al- 
ready indicate the Anglo-Saxon incli- 
nation to broad and flat forms of the 
ornaments, which in å high degree marks the ELEN eruceiform broo- 
ches of England. 
The tendeney to enlarge the size of the plate is fairly expressed 
in the two brooches fiss. 120—121.1) In the first of them the 
underside of the plate is concave in the same manner as noted in 
fig. 117, and the brooch is also remarkable for the polyedrous form 
å 
1) Fig. 120: Rudstone, East Riding, Yorksh. Brit. Mus. From a plotograph. 
Fig. 121: Stow Heath, Suffolk. Brit. Mus. From a sketch by the author. 
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